International Women's Day 8th March 2025

A selection of Fiction and non-fiction titles for adult readers as we promote and celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) 8th March 2025.

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IWD belongs to all who care about women's equality.

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Updated March 7, 2025
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My thoughts exactly
Allen, Lily
Paper Book
I'm strong. I can be tough. I've been broken. I'm opinionated. I'm a people-pleaser. I'm spoilt. I'm needy. I contradict myself. I try to do good. I want to do good. I'm impassioned. I'm observant. Most importantly, I tell the truth. And this is my story.
The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
Angelou, Maya
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .Maya Angelou's classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. This Modern Library edition contains...
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek, Se Hee.
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur. PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek...
Women & power : a manifesto
Beard, Mary
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" -- "A modern feminist classic." From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.<...
Becoming
Obama, Michelle
Paper Book
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF...
Butter : A Novel of Food and Murder
Yuzuki, Asako
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and...
The Silence Factory : A Novel
Collins, Bridget.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A delicately woven novel with an utterly original premise, it ensnared me from the very first page." -- Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding--a captivating story of...
Her Majesty's Royal Coven : A Novel
Dawson, Juno.
Paper Book
"Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty's Royal Coven... expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." --The New York Times Book Review   "Talk about a gut punch of a novel. ...A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism,...
The Shadow Cabinet : A Novel
Dawson, Juno.
Paper Book
"This entrancing mix of feminism, queerness, magic and power-hungry villains makes for an intoxicating reading experience." --Nerd Daily In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistible" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must...
Gentleman Jack : a biography of Anne Lister : regency landowner, seducer & secret diarist
Steidele, Angela
Paper Book
The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency...
The wren, the wren
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
Winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize in Fiction * Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Guardian and The Times * Named one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2023, one of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works...
More than a woman
Moran, Caitlin
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Book Pick The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another "hilarious neo-feminist manifesto" (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises--and, of course, feminism. A decade ago,...
Face it
Harry, Debbie
Paper Book
Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK  Musician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie Harry is the...
It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
Khan, Mariam
Paper Book
An anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.In 2016, Mariam Khan read that British Prime Minister David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a...
Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS
Moaveni, Azadeh
Paper Book
A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State--based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. FINALIST FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
No man's land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
Moore, Wendy
Paper Book
The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.   A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and...
Forgotten women : the scientists
Tsjeng, Zing
Paper Book
Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand theyve been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. From leaders and scientists to artists and writers,...

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